Warmington family photographs

Notes compiled by Allan Warmington and Maureen Spinks, February 2004.

This is believed to be a photograph of Walter Richard Warmington. The caption on the back of the photo says, "A Warmington - probably Uncle Walter". Can anyone confirm if this is so? At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, Walter Richard Warmington was very prominent in Badsey life, being a Market Gardener, Assistant Overseer, School Attendance Officer, Clerk to the Parish Council, Collector of taxes for Badsey, Aldington, Wickhamford and Bretforton, and Fire Officer. He then took over the running of The Bell Inn on the death of his father. His daughter, Prudence Jecolia, trained as a Pupil Teacher at Badsey, and his children, Tom and Gwendoline, were amongst the first Badsey children to gain scholarships to Grammar School in Evesham.

William John Warmington is on the left of this photograph which was taken by his son John Joseph on the occasion of the wedding of his daughter, Kathleen, to Harry Osborn about 1919. Campden History Society has published a book of letters from Harry Osborn, "A Child in Arcadia: The Chipping Campden Boyhood of H T Osborn". See www.chippingcampdenhistory.org.uk/publications.htm

William John Warmington (known as John), taken in 1883, two years before his marriage to Rose Anne Bennett. John had been born at Dorsington in 1855, but grew up in Badsey. He was a Market Gardener and a builder and was a School Manager at Badsey Board School for several years in the 1890s.

This photo of William John Warmington was taken many years later, in the late 1920s, by which time he was living in Chipping Campden.

Allan Warmington believes this very early photograph shows Mary Parker and her grandson, William John Warmington, taken in 1855.